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to make final accounting to his Mak
er. His own heart will be his bitter
est accuser."
Both men had loved the woman
who in tunv had loved both. But lit
tle happiness had gone withjiiese en
tangled affections. Of herliusband,
Mrs. Hendricks had said shei would
die rather than live with'hini. For
her affinity she chose to'end it all,
rather than face public ."Condemna
tion. t :
"The peculiar thing about this
tragedy," said the Rev.' Browne, a
Rev. R. A. M. Browne, Prominent
Temperance Worker.
prominent temperance worker, grad
uate or Columbia University and a
former student at Heidelburg. "is the
attitude of our friends towards Mrs.
Hendricks ami myself.
"While all of them throw the en
tire blame on me, and while I have
been unable to offer one single argu
ment in my own defense, all the offers
of aid, materially and spiritually,
have come to me, supposedly the arch
criminal in this- affair, and none- to
Mrs. Hendricks, who needed help far
more than I.
""I was offered money to get out of
the state and seek oblivion. But
when I tried to get aid for the woman,
I was met with cold rebuffs." '
And so the woman paid to the ultimate.
HUSBAND DOESN'T BLAME WIFE
"She threw herself away on an un
worthy man. I say this while admit
ting my own deficiencies. I cherish
no ill feelings against my dead wife.
But against the man who sent her to
ruin I shall entertain an undying
hatred. He was not fit to tie her shoe
strings, but for him she went to her
doom. I can't understand it, but my
belief is that she was lonely and that
Browne took advantage of it." Roy
Hendricks.
THE DIFFERENCE
The lights gleam low, the fiddles wafL
The villain shrieketh "Damme!"
She hides her huddled head in her
- arms
Correct! It's a problem play.
The lights gleam low, the fiddles wafL
The villain laughs blase;
She hides her huddled head in her
arms
Correct! It's a problem play.
The lights gleam low, the fiddles waiL
The slapstick whistles shrill;
She hides her huddled head in her
arms
Correct! It's vaudeville.
Puck. x
A CAUTIOUS CUSS
The other day we met a man who
carried a suit case with one end
tilted up. Thinking that was the lat
est way to carry one we made in
quiry and were informed that he car
ried it in that position because he
had a quart of licker inside that did
not have a cork on it Hogwallow
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